After crash Spyder will not start even after reinstall

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From lower...@gmail.com on 2013-06-21T11:01:56Z

I've the following issue which is now affecting 2 computers using spyder-2.2.0 on 64 bit Win7.

1. Open a large array component of a dictionary in var. explorer
2. Spyder crashes
3. When I attempt to restart Spyder it will not restart (even after reinstalling)

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1453

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From luckw...@gmail.com on 2013-06-25T16:15:21Z

I have a similar problem, and it sounds like others have had it too. Issues 1344 and 1242 seem to be related.

One solution in the comments of issue #1344 was that you can restart Spyder if you open a terminal and write:
rm .spyder2/spyder.lock

This didn't work for me. I had to modify it to
rm -r .spyder2/spyder.lock

I didn't know what the equivalent command was in DOS, so I used the above command in a Cygwin terminal. It has allowed me to reopen Spyder, although this clearly does not fix the larger issue of the crashing.

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From lower...@gmail.com on 2013-06-26T02:26:37Z

Ah right - that makes sense and let me get spyder running again. thanks

spyder.lock is a folder which tells spyder not to start another instance. With these crashes it doesn't seem to be being removed (as Spyder isn't closing). You can find it in windows inside your \spyder2 directory and deleting it will fix the no-restart problem (that's what the rm command is doing - del or just deleting from explorer works as well).

I'll live with the occasional crash.

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From techtonik@gmail.com on 2013-06-26T03:11:48Z

I believe we can do better by writing process id into the spyder.lock if it is impossible to create symlink for this process. For that we may need to upgrade/enhance/replace ./utils/external/lockfile.py

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From ccordoba12 on 2013-06-29T08:42:49Z

Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 1441

[ccordoba12]

Also related to issue #2363